[Question] Race Swapping/Model Editing

[Icelandic1717]

So, I've been taking the past day or two to learn the intricacies of race swap and model edit. I'm really getting into it, I am gonna start making some of my ideas once I get the money together in a few days and order Paintshop . I found a post on only making it so player characters are of the specified race that you swap to, but I'm curious about making it so that only MY player character is the one that is swapped.

So, instead of having all Nelf Females look like Blood Elves, would it be possible to make it so that only MY Nelf does? I am betting that the answer is no, since the game reads the textures for a specific race and applies it to all of them, but I would like to ask because it'd be fun if my Druid was the only one that was different in feral/caster forms in arenas and raids and stuff. I was thinking, perhaps, that there was a way to force the client to read my textures differently than external player characters' textures, but I don't know if that's possible.


Also, for added clarification, is it possible to do the foot fix without doing a race swap? For example, if I had a draenei or tauren male, could I hex-edit just the feet, and make it so they show with boots on? Not really that important, just always was a non-sequitur to me that they don't have any footwear. Mostly like the American/Euro undead model and most female armor pieces.

[Icelandic1717]

Oh, and also, when I try to do creature -> creature editing, and follow some of the guides out there, they say that you have to load up common.MPQ in MWCS, and get the .m2 files and then swap them out for the ones you want, but according to my MWCS, common.MPQ doesn't have any .m2 files in it to begin with. Has this procedure changed since the guides that were written last February?